Molecular electronics & quantum electronics  

  

Haddon & Lamola '85

R. C. Haddon and A. A. Lamola. "The molecular electronic device and the biochip computer: Present status." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82:1874-1878, April 1985.

  

Reed et al. '90

M. A. Reed, J. N. Randall, and J. H. Luscombe. "Non-equilibrium quantum dots: Transport." Nanotechnology 1:63-66, 1990.

  

Luscombe & Frensley '90

James H. Luscombe and William R. Frensley. "Models for nanoelectronic devices." Nanotechnology 1:131-140, 1990.

  

Bate '90

R. T. Bate. "Nanoelectronics." Nanotechnology 1:1-7, 1990.

An interesting and readable overview of the state of quantum-confined 10nm-scale semiconductor device technology.

  

Birge et al. '91

Robert R. Birge, Albert F. Lawrence and Jack R. Tallent. "Quantum effects, thermal statistics and reliability of nanoscale molecular and semiconductor devices." Nanotechnology 2:73-87, 1991.

  

Sienicki '92

Kristof Sienicki, editor. Molecular Electronics and Molecular Electronic Devices, vol. 3., 1992.

  

Single

"Single Electronics." Scientific American, June 1992.

  

Hong '92

Felix T. Hong, editor. Molecular Electronics: Biosensors and Biocomputers. 1992.

  

Reed '93

Mark A. Reed. "Quantum dots." Scientific American, January 1993, pp. 118-123.

Blurb: Nanotechnologists can now confine electrons to pointlike structures. Such "designer atoms" may lead to new electronic and optical devices.

  

Waldeck & Beratan '93

D. H. Waldeck and D. N. Beratan. "Molecular Electronics: Observation of Molecular Rectification." Science 261:576-577, July 30, 1993.

  

Merkle '93 a

Ralph C. Merkle. "Reversible electronic logic using switches." Nanotechnology 4:21-40, 1993. Postscript version at URL ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/nano/electro.ps.

  

Wagner & Lindsey '94

Richard W. Wagner and Jonathan S. Lindsey. "A Molecular Photonic Wire." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 116:9759-9760, 1994.

  

Bandyopadhyay et al. '94

S. Bandyopadhyay, B. Das and A. E. Miller. "Supercomputing with spin-polarized single electrons in a quantum coupled architecture." Nanotechnology 5(2):113-133.

Scheme for binary logic using the spins of single electrons in quantum dots on a chip to store bits of information. Can also do 2-D cellular automata. Very fast switching times and storage densities.

  

Real et al. '95

José Antonio Real, Enrique Andrés, M. Carmen Muñoz, Miguel Julve, Thierry Granier, Azzedine Bousseksou and François Varret. "Spin Crossover in a Catenane Supramolecular System." Science 268:265-267, April 14, 1995.

Builds a regular framework out of organic molecules that exhibits interesting electron magnetic phenomena that they speculate might be used in molecular electronic switches.